Fall Meeting of the Astronomical Society of New York
On Saturday October 25th, Siena College Physics Department will host the annual fall meeting of the Astronomical Society of New York.For more information, contact Rose Finn
Friday, October 24th
ALFALFA Groups Meeting
telecon at 3 pmPublic Lecture
by Martha Haynes (Cornell University)Dark Matter, Dark Galaxies and ALFALFA
7 pm
202 Roger Bacon Hall (Key Auditorium)
Business meeting
9 PM, Roger Bacon Room 150Saturday, October 25th
Location
Roger Bacon Hall, Room 202 (Key Auditorium)Schedule
Coffee and refreshments (9:00-9:30)09:30 Invited Talk: Charles Liu (CUNY) Galaxy Evolution From 80,000 To One
10:15 Christina Lacey (Hofstra University) Ultra Dense HII Regions in NGC 247
Break & Poster Session (10:30 - 11:00)
11:00 Graduate Student Prize: Stephanie Tonnesen (Columbia University)
Environmentally-Driven Evolution of Simulated Cluster Galaxies
11:30 Graduate Student Prize: Zach Medin (Cornell University)
Condensed Surfaces of Magnetic Neutron Stars, Thermal Surface Emission, and Particle Acceleration above Pulsar Polar Caps
Lunch (12:00 - 1:15)
01:30 Invited Talk: John Salzer (Wesleyan University) KISS - Heavy Metal
02:15 Chris Malone (Stony Brook) Multidimensional Simulations of Convection on the Surface of Neutron Stars
02:30 Becky Koopmann (Union College) A 500 kpc HI Tail of the Virgo Pair NGC4532/DDO137 Detected by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) Survey
02:45 Jinmi Yoon (Stony Brook) Updating Vega's mass, age, and evolutionary status
Break & Poster Session (3:00 - 3:15)
03:15 Mary Crone Odekon (Skidmore College) Characteristic Scales in Stellar Clustering: A Transition Near the Disk Scale Height
03:30 Ted von Hippel (Siena College) White Dwarf Debris Disks and the Fate of Planetary Systems
03:45 Glenn Ciolek (RPI) Gravitational Fragmentation and Dynamical Collapse of Protostellar Cores in Magnetic Interstellar Clouds
04:00 Frank Ripple (SUNY Oswego) The SUNY Oswego LMC Infra-Red Survey
04:15 ALFALFA Undergrad Groups Project
Meeting Ends (4:30)
Poster Presentations
David Barker (Union College) Photometric Detection of Transiting Extrasolar PlanetsPatti Carroll (Siena College) Seasonal Changes in Saturn's Clouds
Robert Carroll, Kristie Dangerfield, Danielle Seeley (Siena College) Gas Depletion in the MKW 10 Galaxy Group
Trevor Quirk (Siena College) Using the ALFALFA Survey to Analyze the WBL 251 Poor Group
Corey Snitchler (Siena College) A Comparison of Field and Cluster Galaxies in MKW 11
Allan Weatherwax (Siena College)
Accommodations
LaQuinta Inn and Suites Albany Airport833 New Loudon Rd, Latham NY
518-640-2200
Quality Inn
Rte 7, Latham NY
518-785-5891
Directions
For those who want to get directions online, the address for Siena is:515 Loudon Rd
Loudonville, NY 12211
You can find directions to campus here and a campus map (which shows North to the left; Rte 9 borders the west side of campus). We will be meeting in Roger Bacon, building 4 on the Siena map. To get to the parking lot and Roger Bacon Hall from Rte 9, turn into the main entrance of Siena (building with gold dome will be right in front of you). At the stop sign, make a left. At the next stop sign, make a right. At next stop sign, make a right into the parking lot. If you continue to the end of the first row, you will see Roger Bacon ahead on the right. Park anywhere there.